The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a plan that, if passed, would permit the gunning down of feral hogs from helicopters to reduce the population within the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge.

THE GOVERNMENT would cull some 6,000 hogs from a swine farm north of Metro Manila following a confirmed outbreak of Ebola Reston virus (ERV), making it the first disease-related large-scale destruction of domestic animals.

Authorities said three dozen hogs were killed or injured after more than 600 were freed from their pens at a farm near Collins last weekend. The people who freed the animals used their vehicle to chase the hogs through nearby farm fields, hitting and

As part of a research experiment believed to be among the first of its kind, Jim Koan is using some pigs to help protect his fruit from the plum curculio, a tiny insect that is among the most destructive apple pests.

Tanzanian authorities reported the outbreak of a deadly viral swine disease on Sunday that has killed nearly 140 pigs in two regions in less than two weeks. "The viral disease has so far caused death to 138 pigs," said Charles Nyamgunda, permanent